1、備考 2012 屆高考十篇經典英語美文助你作文得高分（雙語）備考 2012 屆高考十篇經典英語美文助你作文得高分（ 雙語 ）第一篇 :YouthYouth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep

2、 springs of life.青春不是年華，而是心境; 青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想象，炙熱的戀情 ; 青春是生命的深泉在涌流。Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. W

3、e grow old by deserting our ideals.青春氣貫長虹，勇銳蓋過怯弱，進取壓倒茍安。如此銳氣，二十后生而有之，六旬男子則更多見。年歲有加，并非垂老，理想丟棄，方墮暮年。Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.歲月悠悠，衰微只及肌膚; 熱忱拋卻，頹廢必致靈魂。憂煩，惶恐，喪失自信，定使心靈扭曲，意氣如灰。s hea

4、rt the lure ofWhether 60 or 16, there is in every human being wonders, the unfailing appetite for what s next and the joy of the gameof living. In the center of your heart and my heart, there is a wirelessstation; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, courage andpower from man and from th

5、e infinite, so long as you are young.無論年屆花甲，擬或二八芳齡，心中皆有生命之歡樂，奇跡之誘惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一臺天線，只要你從天上人間接受美好、希望、歡樂、勇氣和力量的信號，你就青春永駐，風華常存。When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows ofcynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you ve grown old, even at 20;but as long as your aerials are up,

6、 to catch waves of optimism, there shope you may die young at 80.一旦天線下降，銳氣便被冰雪覆蓋，玩世不恭、自暴自棄油然而生，即使年方二十，實已垂垂老矣; 然則只要樹起天線，捕捉樂觀信號，你就有望在八十高齡告別塵寰時仍覺年輕。第二篇:Three Days to See (Excerpts)假如給我三天光明 ( 節選 )All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Somet

7、imes it was as long as a year, sometimes as short as 24 hours.- 1 - 用心 愛心 專心But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed hero chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is s

8、trictly delimited.我們都讀過這樣一些動人的故事，故事里主人公將不久于人世。長則一年，短則 , 小時。但是我們總是很想知道這個即將離開人世的人是決定怎樣度過他最后的日子的。當然， 我所指的是有權作出選擇的自由人，不是那些活動范圍受到嚴格限制的死囚。Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. What events, what experiences, what associations should we crowd into those last

9、hours as mortal beings, what regrets?這一類故事會使我們思考在類似的處境下，我們自己該做些什么 , 在那臨終前 的幾個小時里我們會產生哪些聯想, 會有多少欣慰和遺憾呢 ,Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with gentl

10、eness, vigor and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come. There are those, of course, who would adopt the Epicurean motto of “ Eat, drink, and be merry ” . But most people would be chastened by t

11、he certainty of impending death.有時我想，把每天都當作生命的最后一天來度過也不失為一個很好的生命法則。這種人生態度使人非常重視人生的價值。每一天我們都應該以和善的態度、充沛的精力和熱情的欣賞來度過，而這些恰恰是在來日方長時往往被我們忽視的東西。當然，有這樣一些人奉行享樂主義的座右銘吃喝玩樂，但是大多數人卻不能擺脫死亡來臨的恐懼。Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in

12、 the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.我們大多數人認為生命理所當然，我們明白總有一天我們會死去，但是我們常常把這一天看得非常遙遠。當我們身體強壯時，死亡便成了難以相象的事情了。我們很少會考慮它，

13、日子一天天過去，好像沒有盡頭。所以我們為瑣事奔波，并沒有意識到我們對待生活的態度是冷漠的。The same lethargy, I am afraid, characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses. Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. Particularly does thisobservation apply to those who have lost sight

14、and hearing in adult life.But those who have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties. Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sounds hazily, without concentration and with little appreciation. It is the same old story of not being grate

15、ful for what we have until we lose it, of not being conscious of health until we are ill.我想我們在運用我們所有五官時恐怕也同樣是冷漠的。只有聾子才珍惜聽力，只有盲人才能- 2 - 用心 愛心 專心認識到能見光明的幸運。對于那些成年致盲或失陪的人來說尤其如此。但是那些聽力或視力從未遭受損失的人卻很少充分利用這些幸運的能力，他們對所見所聞不關注、不欣賞。這與常說的不失去不懂得珍貴，不生病不知道健康可貴的道理是一樣的。I have often thought it would be a blessing if

16、each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound. 我常想如果每一個人在他成年的早些時 候，有幾天成為了聾子或瞎子也不失為一件幸事。黑暗將使他更珍惜光明 ; 沉寂將教他知道聲音的樂趣。Recently I was visited by a very goo

17、d friend who had just returned from a long walk in the woods ， and I asked her what she had observed.“ Nothing in particular ，” shereplied. I might have been incredulous had I not been accustomed to such responses ，for long ago I became convinced that the seeing see little.有時我會試探我的非盲的朋友們，想知道他們看見了什么。

18、最近我的一位非常要好的朋友來看我，她剛剛在樹林里走了很長時間，我問她看見了什么?！皼]什么特別的，”她回答說。如不是我早已習慣了這樣的回答，我也許不會輕易相信，因為很久以前我就相信了有眼人看不見什么。How was it possible, I asked myself, to walk for an hour through the woods and see nothing worthy of note?噢，假如我擁有三天光明，我將會看見多少事物啊I who cannot see find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touc

19、h. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine. In spring I touch the branches of trees hopefully in search of a bud, the first sign of awakening Nature after her winter s sleep I feelthe delightful, vel

20、vety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me. Occasionally, if I am very fortunate, I place my hand gently in a small tree and feel the happy quiver of a bird in full song. I am delighted to have cool waters of a brook r

21、ush through my open fingers. To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the mostluxurious Persian rug. To me the pageant of seasons is a thrilling and unending drama, the action of which streams through my finger tips. At times my heart cries out with longing to see all

22、 these things. If I can get so much pleasure from mere touch, how much more beauty must be revealed by sight. Yet, those who have eyes apparently see little. The panorama of color and action fill the world is taken for granted. It is human, perhaps, to appreciate little that which we have and to lon

23、g for that which we have not, but it is a great pity that in the world of light and the gift of sight is used only as mere convenience rather that as a means of adding fullness to life. Oh, the things that I should see if I had the power of sight for three days!我問自己在樹林中走了一小時，怎么可能什么值得注意的東西都沒有看到呢而我一個盲

24、人僅僅通過觸摸就發現了數以百計的有趣的東西。我感到樹葉的對稱美，用手摸著白樺樹光滑- 3 - 用心 愛心 專心的樹皮或是松樹那粗糙的厚厚的樹皮。春天里我滿懷著希望觸摸著樹枝尋找新芽，那是大自然冬眼后醒來的第一個征象。我感到了花朵的可愛和茸茸的感覺，發現它層層疊疊地綻開著，大自然的神奇展現在我的面前。當我把手輕輕地放在一棵小樹上，如果幸運的話，偶爾會感到歌唱的小鳥歡快的顫動。我會愉快地讓清涼的溪水從手之間流過。對我來 說，滿地厚厚的松針和松軟的草坪比奢華的波斯地毯更惹人喜愛。對我來說四季變換的景色如 同一場動人心魄的不會完結的戲劇，劇中的人物動作從我的指尖流過。我的心不時在吶喊，帶著對光明的渴望

25、。既然僅僅通過觸摸就能使我獲得如此多的喜悅，那么光明定會展示更多美好的事物啊?？上У氖悄切┯醒劬Φ娜朔置骺吹胶苌?，整個世界繽紛的色彩和萬物的活動都被認為是理所當然。也許不珍惜已經擁有的，想得到還沒有得到的是人的特點，但是在光明的世界里只把視覺用做一種方便的工具，而不是豐富生活的工具，這是令人多么遺憾的事情啊。第三篇 :Companionship of Books (Excerpts)以書為伴 ( 節選 )A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there i

26、s a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.我們往往可以從一個人所閱讀的書就可知道他的為人一樣，因為有人以人為伴也有人書為伴。無論是書還是友人，都應該是我們生活中最好的伴侶。A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it always was, and it will never cha

27、nge. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age.一本好書就像是一個最好的朋友。它始終不渝，過去如此，現在仍然如此，將來也永遠不變。它是最有耐心、最令人愉快

28、的伴侶。在我們窮愁潦倒、臨危遭難的時候，它也不會拋棄我們，對我們總是一往情深。在我們年輕時，好書陶冶我們的性情，增長我們的知識到我們年老時，它又給我們以安慰和勉勵。Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, Love

29、me, love my dog. ” But there is more wisdom in this:” Love me,love my book. ” The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favoriteauthor. They live in him together, and he in them.人們常常因為同愛一本書而結為知己，就像有時兩個人因為敬慕同一個人而交為朋友一樣。古諺說 : “愛屋及烏”

30、。但是，“愛我及書”這句話卻有更深的哲理。書是更為堅實而高尚的情誼紐帶。人們可以通過共同愛好的作家溝通思想感情，彼此息息相通。他們的 思想共同在作者的著述里得到體現，而作者的思想反過來又化為他們的思想。A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think- 4 - 用心 愛心 專心out; for the world of a man s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the be

31、st books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters. 好書常如最精美的寶器，珍藏著人的一生 思想的精華。人生的境界，主要就在于他思想的境界。所以，最好的書是金玉良言的寶庫，若將其中的崇高思想銘記于心，就成為我們忠實的伴侶和永恒的慰籍。Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most last

32、ing products of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author s minds, ages ago.What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page.

33、 The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive e but what is really good. 書籍具有不朽的本質，是人類勤奮努力的最為持久的產物。寺廟會 倒坍，神像會朽爛，而書卻經久長存。對于偉大的思想來說，時間是無關重要的。多少年代前初次閃現在作者腦海里的偉大思想今天依然清新如故。他們當時的言論和思想刊于書頁，如今依然那么生動感人。時間唯一的作用是淘汰不好的作品，因為只有真正的佳作才能經世長存。Books introd

34、uce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see the as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a

35、 measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe.書籍引導我們與最優秀的人物為伍，使我們置身歷代偉人巨匠之間，如聞其聲，如觀其行，如見其人。同他們情感交融，悲喜與共。他們的感受成為我們自己的感受，我們覺得有點象是在作者所描繪的人生舞臺上跟他們一起粉墨登場了。The great and good do not die, even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an in

36、tellect to which on still listens. 即使在人世間，偉大杰出的人物，也是 永生不滅的，他們的精神載入書冊，傳之四海。書是人們至今仍在聆聽的智慧之聲，永遠充滿著活力。第四篇 :If I Rest, I Rust如果我休息，我就會生銹If I rest, IThe significant inscription found on an old keyrustwould be anexcellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bitof idleness. Even the most in

37、dustrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately, cannot do the work required of them.在一把舊鑰匙上發現了一則意義深遠的銘文如果我休息，我就會生銹。對于那些懶散而煩惱的人來說，這將是至理名言。甚至最為勤勉的人也以此作為警

38、示 : 如果一個人有才能而不用，就像廢棄鑰匙上的鐵一樣，這些才能就會很快生銹，并最終無法完成安排給自己的工- 5 - 用心 愛心 專心作。Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use, so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gate that guard the entrances to the professions, to science,

39、art, literature, agriculture every departmentof human endeavor.有些人想取得偉人所獲得并保持的成就，他們就必須不斷運用自身才能，以便開啟知識的大門，即那些通往人類努力探求的各個領域的大門，這些領域包括各種職業: 科學，藝術，文學，農業等。Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement.If Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry, had devoted hisevenings to res

40、t and recreation, he would never have become a famous geologist. The celebrated mathematician, Edmund Stone, would never have published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key to science of mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness, had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, a

41、llowed the busy brain to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads, he would never have become a famous astronomer.勤奮使開啟成功寶庫的鑰匙保持光亮。如果休?米勒在采石場勞作一天后，晚上的時光用來休息消遣的話，他就不會成為名垂青史的地質學家。著名數學家愛德蒙?斯通如果閑暇時無所事事，就不會出版數學詞典，也不會發現開啟數學之門的鑰

42、匙。如果蘇格蘭青年弗格森在山坡上放羊時，讓他那思維活躍的大腦處于休息狀態，而不是借助一串珠子計算星星的位置，他就不會成為著名的天文學家。Labor vanquishes all not inconstant, spasmodic, or ill-directed labor; but faithful, unremitting, daily effort toward a well-directed purpose. Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the pr

43、ice of noble and enduring success.勞動征服一切。這里所指的勞動不是斷斷續續的，間歇性的或方向偏差的勞 動，而是堅定的，不懈的，方向正確的每日勞動。正如要想擁有自由就要時刻保持警惕一樣，要 想取得偉大的，持久的成功，就必須堅持不懈地努力。第五篇 :Ambition抱負It is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition. It would probably be a kinder world: with out demands, without abrasions, without disappoint

44、ments. People would have time for reflection. Such work as they did would not be for themselves but for the collectivity.Competition would never enter in. conflict would be eliminated, tension become a thing of the past. The stress of creation would be at an end. Art would no longer be troubling, bu

45、t purely celebratory in its functions. Longevity would be increased, for fewer people would die of heart attack or stroke caused by tumultuous- 6 - 用心 愛心 專心endeavor. Anxiety would be extinct. Time would stretch on and on, with ambition long departed from the human heart.一個缺乏抱負的世界將會怎樣，這不難想象。或許，這將是一個更

46、為友善的世界 : 沒有渴求，沒有磨擦，沒有失望。人們將有時間進行反思。他們所從事的工作將不是為了他們自身，而是為了整個集體。競爭永遠不會介入 ; 沖突將被消除。人們的緊張關系將成為過往云煙。創造的重壓將得以終結。藝術將不再惹人費神，其功能將純粹為了慶典。人的壽命將會更長，因為由激烈拼爭引起的心臟病和中風所導致的死亡將越來越少。焦慮將會消失。時光流逝，抱負卻早已遠離人心。Ah, how unrelieved boring life would be!啊，長此以往人生將變得多么乏味無聊There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth,

47、 and ambition therefore a sham. Does this mean that success does not really exist? That achievement is at bottom empty? That the efforts of men and women are of no significance alongside the force of movements and events now not all success, obviously, is worth esteeming, nor all ambition worth cult

48、ivating. Which are and which are not is something one soon enough learns on ones own. But even the most cynical secretly admit that success exists; that achievement counts for a great deal; and that the true myth is that the actions of men and women are useless. To believe otherwise is to take on a

49、point of view that is likely to be deranging. It is, in its implications, to remove all motives for competence, interest in attainment, and regard for posterity.有一種盛行的觀點認為，成功是一種神話，因此抱負亦屬虛幻。這是不是說實際上并不豐在成功 , 成就本身就是一場空, 與諸多運動和事件的力量相比，男男女女的努力顯 得微不足 ,顯然，并非所有的成功都值得景仰，也并非所有的抱負都值得追求。對值得和不值得的選擇，一個人自然而然很快就能學會

50、。但即使是最為憤世嫉俗的人暗地里也承認，成功確實存在，成就的意義舉足輕重，而把世上男男女女的所作所為說成是徒勞無功才是真正的無稽之談。認為成功不存在的觀點很可能造成混亂。這種觀點的本意是一筆勾銷所有提高能力的動機，求取業績的興趣和對子孫后代的關注。We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We

51、 do not, most of us, choose to die;nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death. But within allthis realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live:courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift. We decide what is important and what is trivial in li

52、fe. We decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do. But no matter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make. We decide. We choose. And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed. In the

53、end, forming our own destiny is what ambition is about.我們無法選擇出生，無法選擇父母，無法選擇出生的歷史時期與國家，或是成長的周遭環 境。我們大多數人都無法選擇死亡，無法選擇死亡的時間或條件。但是在這些無法 選擇之中，我們的確可以選擇自己的生活方式: 是勇敢無畏還是膽小怯懦，是光明磊落還是厚顏無恥，是目標堅定還是隨波逐流。我們決定生活中哪些至關重要，哪些微不足道。我們決定，用以顯- 7 - 用心 愛心 專心示我們自身重要性的，不是我們做了什么，就是我們拒絕做些什么。但是不論世界對我們所做的選擇和決定有多么漠不關心，這些選擇和決定終究是我們

54、自己做出的。我們決定，我們選擇。而當我們決定和選擇時，我們的生活便得以形成。最終構筑我們命運的就是抱負之所在。第六篇 :What I have Lived for我為何而生Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blow

55、n me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.我的一生被三種簡單卻又無比強烈的激情所控制 : 對愛的渴望，對知識的探索和對人類苦難難以抑制的同情。這些激情像狂風，把我恣情吹向四方，掠過苦痛的大海，迫使我瀕臨絕望的邊緣。I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy ecstasy sogreat that I wouldoften have sacrific

56、ed all the rest of my life for a few hours forthis joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness thatterrible loneliness in whichone shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into thecold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because inthe union of love

57、I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguringvision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what Isought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is whatat last I have found.我尋求愛，首先因為它使我心為之著迷，這種難以名狀的美妙迷醉使我愿意用所有的余生去換取哪怕幾個小時這樣的幸福。我尋求愛，還因為它能緩解我心理上的孤獨中，我感覺心靈的戰栗，仿如

58、站在世界的邊緣而面前是冰冷，無底的死亡深淵。我尋求愛，因為在我所目睹的結合中，我仿佛看到了圣賢與詩人們所向往的天堂之景。這就是我所尋找的，雖然對人的一生而言似乎有些遙不可及，但至少是我用盡一生所領悟到的。With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which num

59、ber holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.我用同樣的激情去尋求知識。我希望能理解人類的心靈，希望能夠知道群星閃爍的緣由。我試圖領悟畢達哥拉斯所景仰的“數即萬物”的思想。我已經悟出了其中的一點點道理，盡管并不是很多。Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always it brought me back to earth. Echoes of crie

60、s of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery- 8 - 用心 愛心 專心of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I to